Gadagkar, R (1996) Konrad Lorenz - father to ethology and mother to ducks, geese, jackdaws, salamanders, fish and many more! In: Resonance - journal of science education, 1 (6). pp. 2-3.
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Abstract
Konrad Zacharia Lorenz was born in 1903 as the son of a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon in Vienna. Like Darwin (and perhaps like so many of today's kids), he studied medicine in deference to the wishes of his father and like Darwin, his real love lay elsewhere - in this case, in the study of animal behaviour. But "study" is not how it began. Lorenz spent most of his life in the company of his favourite pets - ducks, geese, jackdaws, salamanders, fish and many more. Very early in childhood, when the scientific study of animal behaviour, or of anything else for that roamer, was far from his mind, Lorenz and his childhood friend and future wife Gretel, took care of their pet ducklings by pretending to be mother ducks by living with them "a complete duck's life" and becoming "most thoroughly familiar with the whole repertoire of all the things a duck can say or do', without knowing that "this was to be called an 'ethogram' many years later'.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Resonance - journal of science education |
| Publisher: | Indian Academy of Sciences |
| Keywords: | Konrad Lorenz |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Mar 2021 09:44 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 09:44 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/68146 |
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